From a console-exclusive tune, we bounce back with an arcade-only treat! (and OH BOY, if it isn't a handful...)
Misdeed -la bonté de Dieu et l'origine du mal- Takenobu Mitsuyoshi VS Daisuke Anayama/CHUNITHM
業 -善なる神とこの世の悪について- / 光吉猛修 VS 穴山大輔 「CHUNITHM」より
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★5 (245) |
★6 (315) |
★7 (475) |
★9 (875) |
★10 (1195) |
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???Due to the rarity of such an occurrance, it's always a momentuous occasion when foreign rhythm game songs cross over into Taiko gaming... so could you imagine what it meant to have a boss song on foreign soil appearing in another game, just with 1 away since its announcement? That sure is a drink-spitting moment if I've ever saw one (and in fact, this is what happened to me when I first caught the news up!).
To tell the story of this long-worded colossus of a track is to pit together a couple of Sega-renowned musicians: longtime company contributor Takenobu Mitsuyoshi (光吉猛修) -whom Taiko gaming already had a taste of his composing and singing skills- and Daisuke Anayama (穴山大輔; Twitter), a sound designer at Sega since 2007 who went from producing music for kids games and select JP-only titles (including the Yakuza series spinoff Ryu ga Gotoku Ishin!) to contribute to the creation of the very first version of the CHUNITHM rhythm game series, for which he's the ongoing lead sound producer, in conjunction to the other two currently-active Sega arcade rhythm games (maimai and Ongeki).
It's from Anayama himself that often times cryptic hints to some of his future boss track contributions are handed out via Twitter, such as this title tease with 'Karma' in brackets and the later-on-shared 'sneak peek' to the song in action (link), complete with the definitive title. The track was then released for CHUNITHM Star as part of the final round of its "episode-format" series of arcade-progression-centric unlocks, serving as the image song of the imposing Grand Wraith (グランレイス) that appears on its album jacket.
The official translation of the song in Roman lettering was first made available when this VS collaboration track was ported into lowiro's Arcaea (link) with a French-worded subtitle of 'God's Goodness and Evil's Origin', which is also what international Taiko games go by for the song's title. Actually, it's also a reference to the full name of the Thèodicèe, an 18th century philosophy book from German polymath Gottfried Leibniz whose full name translated in English equates to "Essays of Theodicy on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil". Who would have thought that someone's argument of having no defensible rational solution for why God permits the existence of evil could be translated into music gaming nightmares, 300ish years later?!
With the 'Misdeed' Japanese character's reading also going with 'Go' (=5 in JP), this was quite the ripe occasion for the Taiko Team's patented wordplay action as each of its modes has the Max Combo counter ending with 5! This, of course, goes on top of what lies at the latter end of the difficulty spectrum, with both regular and Ura Oni charts taking advantage of both its nerciless tempo and stamina-draining drumrolling moments to further instill the temptation onto players to wisk their stamina away for quick point gains, in spite of what lurks a bit ahead,... This goes exceptionally true for the Ura Oni chart, now the 2nd-placed note number holder trailing behind BLAZING VORTEX's Ura Oni, but upping the difficulty ante thrugh the many fiendish clusters following the piano notation and frantic big/small note succession to make even the most seasoned Ura Matsuyoi Night Bug player weep!
